Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-08
was not in the city, therefore court ~.
iourned until Monday at . O'clock a. m
FIFTH DAY.

FIFTH DAY.
interest to the public than any precedin, noe
as it had been announced the day pr M w
that H. l. Ieavitt was to be put on the , u;sl
stand. An immense crowd surged aroma r,sa s
court room door, but not one-thlrd Of ~.
could gain an entrance. After The tear msn
| of VIM. Williamson, Geo. A. Lang and q "i aga9,
sheim, the three first witnesses of the dar, 'l Y.
been takon, which was of no important, w
interest, Leavitt, the principal witness eo,;tN
A ensdorf, was called to the stand. IS %"
in assuming the witness box and through y
entire examination by counsel on both Sid. le
the case, was entirely at his ease and his~ sa
| dence was given in n straightforward MAN, WI
Witness said he was proprietor of the S S.sf
dard Theatre at the time of the murder of p ~
PENDANT, as theyhad business dealings prev y
to the night of the shooting of about s o".s
months that he attended a liquor mem mnM a ,
| ing at which Arensdorf was present. , KY
Arensdorf said that We ought to blow In '1
burn down Haddock's or Turner's house ,MM1
| we brewers have got too much money at ,t na
| to be bothered with them sons of b--aa
longer. Witness then told OF going with rsrsSS|
Munchrath, jr, next morning to the DEPOT ,s W
that the latter proposed to Dan Morialt,T m1
click" Haddoclk or Walker for 800, and INV
he refuecd; I walked down to tho corner NJ, naiI
crossed toward the Sioux National Bank. thas.
was Plath, Treiher, Munchrath, Peters any
two Germans; l can remember exactiy ina
now there might have been more; learnsi1
afterwards the Germans We're Ga,.der asS|
C%oschniski; they were ta king about l,c Green
villc place, to come up the next day, and tInll
Haddock and Turner were out with their Oval
horse and went down to Grcenviile to ssal
some new evidence; Treiber said suppose wa|
go down there aud just see how he gains ls
told how himself, Peters, Ireiber and ', "ca
other man-Plath-he thought, got into q hal
in front of the Hubbard House and drove n
Greenville, and returned to Junk's saloon. anal
left the hack and entered the saloon.
there met Scollard, Grady, Junk, Arnesloyi'
after l got the cigars they seemed to all star]
to go home, or 1 did; the one they call Bs
back just as we got out on the outside; Arnes.
dorf said let us go and see; VIC went towards
Water s.reet-Arnesdorf, Peters, Tricbcr
Plath, Bismarck and myself; stopped at ,be
fence corner OF Fourth and Wafer streets.
Munchrath said if they licked Haddock, ins1
give hun a black-eye; Arnesdorf said some.
thing about drunken Dutchmen;" saw Had
Fourth street; Arnesdorf surtsl
towards him; they met some ten stops from
Water street crossing i'll the road; when they
met Arcnsdorf lookedin to HaddocA's face, and
Haddock raised his hand and the hand CAM
down and Arensdorf passed and shot HIM.
Haddock groaned aud stumbled and finally
fell; Arcnsdorf kept right ahead over Wat.r
street; about two seconds afterI st.rted to run
towards Water street. At this point of Tie
proceedings of the case States .Attor-
ney Marsh made the following reques..
Ii l was representing Mr.. Haddock coming
from the west on Water street, OH the cross.
ing, you say Mr.. Arensdorf came from thu
1$1>,, ,ro.t,, 4, ,,., ,l- l;-n n
Arensdorf-just illustrate now how it was
done. Get up close. Now walk Oh towards
me and illustrate what motions and describe,
If you can, as you saw it OCCUR that night.
Well, sir. Arensdorf walked right out and
Peters after HIM, Henry PEERS, and us he got
up to the minister he looked in his face this
way indicatins); this hard went up thc left
dicating to the right and fired: Peters was
eight or ten feet from Haddock at
the time; went right ON after Arensdorf:
went over to Ryan's house on Water street,
there met Mr.. Riley and his wife, Billey Docr.
sen and his wife; talked with Doersen abou,
the shooting: sent him for my wife; he re
turned from Johnson's with my wife; after
Fourth street; saw Arnesdorf day after shoot
ing and lie asked me if l seen it; 1 said, syes.
John: it is u bad thing for you; you ought
never to have done that" He said, Il know
1t; but everybody has got to keep stills" sdit
anybody see it besides you?" l says, "every
body on the spot there must nave seen il
John, because they all stopped dumb when i
happened: and he SAYS, can I depend OF
you?" 1 says, you can" he Essays, sas q brother:
1 says, yes that is ab,ut all the conversation
l am q brother sK. p" knights of Pythias;
saw HIM afterwards and he said he had jus
been up before the coroner's jury, and 1 said
.sWhat did you know, john" He says, @Noth
ing, and kind Of laughed, and he said Henr,
Peters was subpGnaed, he guessed he would
go up this afternoon. He said sThat nigyel
and Dutchnan," something like that, eCoulln'
find him for any evidence, and he though
about sending him over to Nebraska for d few
days and from there to Germany" Saw Arens-
dorf again about a week after on Pearl street
near my theatre; forget how the conversation
started. l was showing him how l was fixing
the place up, and raising the floor, and walked
out in front to the door with him, and l says;
John, don't you think it would be q good idea
for you to plead guilty, or self-defense, and
that you would get out Of it better, because
this thing must come out" He said: no;
you had better keep still, and everybody, and
it will be all right" l told him my wife said
thai my name was mentioned in the paper,
that Ryan seen me, and this thing would have
to come out, and for me to toll Arensdoyf not
TO send Peters away, or any one else that was
up there that evening; he said all right; he
wouldn't send anybody away"
Here the examination ended and court adj
Journed till the following day.